Posted on 01/22/2010 6:06:18 PM PST by restornu
As The Wall Street Journal points out in an opinion this morning, this is a good day not only for Scott Brown, the new senator from Massachusetts, but for Mitt Romney as well. Glenn Beck doesn’t trust Brown, he says. But with Brown toting friends like the popular former governor of Massachusetts, William Weld, John McCain and Romney around on his bus, it might not be such a good day for Glenn Beck.
The WSJ’s Kim Strassel pointed out that Romney’s closest aides flooded to Mr. Brown, bringing with them the savvy of his national operation.
“From a perch atop his Free and Strong America PAC, Mr. Romney has been raising money, nurturing his team, keeping himself in the national spotlight. With the Massachusetts Senate race, he sensed an unexpected opportunity to step to the front of the GOP presidential ranks,” she writes.
I doubt that the Tea Party’s tent will fold with the election of Brown, but something else has happened: The river that runs between traditional Republicans and insurgent conservative populists now has a bridge in Scott Brown. In fact, it has another bridge in Virginia with the new governor, Bob McDonnell, who will give the Republicans’ response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech Wednesday. The insurgents have built a new base for organization and now, with the election of Brown and McDonnell, it is being absorbed into the mainstream.
But when the very first thinking about regional identity started to surface here in New England as a militant defense against federal overreach, Romney was the governor of Massachusetts and he was already incorporating the same elements of thinking, not as revolutionary polemic, but as practical and effective management strategies here in Massachusetts.
Thus the phrase, “One size does not fit all,” which he began to use as governor, used throughout his presidential campaign and used again this last week in a Fox Business interview. It is his theme song. Texas Gov. Rick Perry now uses the phrase as well, and so does Sarah Palin.
Republican pundits report that Romney’s stock has been down because of RomneyCare, the healthcare program that Romney instituted in Massachusetts. Some of the features suggest ObamaCare, and as large numbers oppose ObamaCare’s vast federal spending, the thinking goes, they would therefore oppose RomneyCare. But that misses the point.
“The bill that was being pushed in Washington was not good for Massachusetts,” Brown said after his election. “It may have been good for other states, but we already had everything and a lot of what was being proposed.”
That is just the point in Romney’s thinking about healthcare: What is good for one state and region is not necessarily good for others. Romney is in fact in the avant garde with this thinking, which has become the base camp of the states’-sovereignty movement.
Romney was unique in the history of Massachusetts governors in that he came to us from the west. He had personal experience in the Western states, in Michigan and in Massachusetts, where he went to college.
My observation here when he was governor was that he had that rare quality which Zen Buddhists call “beginner’s mind.” He does not rebel from new ideas and new people but continually incorporates aspects of new thinking in his own ideas to make a better fit. And he is aware that the country has changed since 1776, when the west was forest and later when it was frontier, and even the 1930s, when the vast majority of Americans worked in one of two places, the floor of the factory or the field.
One-size-fits-all-federalism might have been the perfect system then. But today for a country as full and rich and varied and alive as ours, the old system is a disaster. Romney was the first to catch on.
Arlen Specter must be your mentor...
As I have stated if you really want to know what the Lord reveal to Joseph Smith it is best you pray and ask for understanding from the Lord.
Because you have no clue; do you!
You have fallen for the deception that JS has spread; just like 12,999,999 others.
We ANTIs are PRAYING for you, as well as them.
2 Corinthians 11:12
And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about.
Elsie it seems ye have little faith in pray and talking to the Lord Jesus Christ!
It seems you have little reading ability.
I said he hasn't told me; nad YOU can't so, I guess like EVERYONE else on Earth, I'll have to go thru life without that knowledge.
(You are not going to LIE and say that YOU know; are you?)
He stated, "Ok to ban lethal weapons that threaten police" for example. It sounds reasonable but anti gun forces interpret it to mean any firearm firing a projectile able to defeat police body armor. This just happens to be all ammunition suitable for the humane hunting of medium and large game. The thing here is that Romney might not have known enough to understand the "cop killer bullet" BS, but he bought into it. I'm giving him the benefit of doubt here, but he may have known exactly what he was advocating.
Romney's new membership in the NRA is nice but I haven't seen any signs he gets it yet.
No, but the socialist Flip Romney is yours
Another day, another Romney puff piece.
Massachusetts is still the only state I know of where you have to register your machete, it's insane, but evidently normal in Massachusetts!
When such an obsession consumes one it is obvious something else that is really the issue in their life.
Admitting to oneself that one has a problem is the first step in recovery. I am glad you are finally realizing that obsessing about the socialist Flip Romney for other reasons than advocating for conservatism (since he's not one) is consuming you and is not healthy..for you or the nation.
I had never thought of Flip as a disease, but unleashing him on the country would surely continue us moving in the direction of godless socialism..which is a societal sickness.
My suggestion for your recovery from your obsessiion is to quit spending your days searching out articles about Flip to post on FR to try to convince us that he is something beside the socialist turd that he is, and instead search for articles about the ills of abortion, homosexuality, and socialism, as well as the free society and gun ownership rights.
I just pray as we get closer to 2012 that many issues in many areas will be clearer about all candidates.
We as Americans have an excellent opportunity to correct the path we are on and I pray for discernment as a nation that we will find leaders who will work at restoring the Constitution of the United Stated.
I like to see more people like Brown in his case came from a broke home and made bad decision in his youth yet he also was able to grow towards doing good.
How many talented and gifted citizens are out there that have baggage because bad decision in their youth yet over the years of experience they have learn to value life, have a love for country and desire to restore the constitution.
Do we not need a combination of both those who have always lead a good life and those who have grown to overcome their pass this blend gives hope and faith for a better tomorrow!
I hope you get help!
When one is a conservative one rarely needs help. Those who are in favor of socialists often are not able to live their lives without someone to fantasize about or someone to tell them how to live their lives. They gladly give up their liberty and freedom in exchange for their little fantasies. A sorry lot you belong to.
Go peddle your socialism on DU or Kooky Kos where they will love it.
I for one don’t think that the proliferation of “Palin is a RINO” threads are coincidental.
My prediction:
Conservatives get split and Romney wins the nomination. Let’s face it, it’s between Palin and Romney...no other candidate will defeat Romney in the GOP.
I give him credit for being organized and he has money.
Romney, for example, says he has joined the NRA. that's great, but does he actually read NRA publications with a mind to educate himself on the issues? Are you, for that matter, aware of the actual ins and outs of the gun control debate? The issue may be much larger than you know!
Elsie it was 18 years before I even heard of Joseph Smith and I already was aware that mainstream religion was limited in being able to do justice to many of the questions the Bible presented!
The attitude of many in the religious field was if it is not in the Bible it is not so, we don’t know, or it does not exist etc.
Well the Spirit of the Lord lead me to believe there was answers to my quest!
For which I am thankful.
The heart of America is awake due to pain and awareness that their wallet and freedoms are at stake.
Local governments are just as vital people need to weed those progressive out of those places school boards, community board meeting as well what is going on in the county.
Maybe it would be a good idea to consider restoring senate seat… Originally, senators were selected by the state legislatures, not by popular elections wiki
Winter taxes are always low like under $50 dollars but the Fall tax is around $2000. for my areas also the county has changed in the 08 election the constitution to a Charter which I fear will already make a depress area worst.
I know the NRA is vital and so should every pro constitution candidate beware and supportive.
such gibbish I have no clue where you wonder of too...
I speak, read and write English. I have no idea what you just wrote.
People might even try to take you seriously if you can string together a coherent sentence or two.
I'm surprised the Relief Society does not offer English grammar courses.
Oh, SNAP! ROTFL!
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